I really, really hate lines that stretch the entire width of a window - it makes it hard to find the right line on the fly-back. I've reached the end of the line, I'm looking for the start of the next line, my eyes flick back to the left side of the screen. Now, where was I?
When text stretches to take up the entire width I don't use full-screen windows. I adjust them to have about 10 words per line, and I can scan down really fast. Similarly for programming. Don't make me scroll through a 6000 line function, and don't make me read along a 6000 character line.
Yes, 6000 characters may be an exaggeration, but where is the limit? Where is the point where the line is simply "too long". Answer? It's where readability drops off, and for me, that's about 10 words, or about 60 characters.
When text stretches to take up the entire width I don't use full-screen windows. I adjust them to have about 10 words per line, and I can scan down really fast. Similarly for programming. Don't make me scroll through a 6000 line function, and don't make me read along a 6000 character line.
Yes, 6000 characters may be an exaggeration, but where is the limit? Where is the point where the line is simply "too long". Answer? It's where readability drops off, and for me, that's about 10 words, or about 60 characters.